DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Harold and Maude This cult classic was light years ahead of its time, a huge commercial flop and reviled by many critics at the time of its release before eventually...

The Washington Kastles — defending World Tennis Team champions , mind you — announced a big move today: both Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, will play for D.C.’s WTT outfit this summer. “The historic opportunity to have both Serena and Venus on our team is a thrill, both...

Photo by philliefan99 The Jan. 31 filing deadline to submit financial statements to the Office of Campaign Finance has passed, so let’s take a look at what kind of shape the District’s 2010 candidates are in, eight months out from the Sept. primaries. By the way, if you’d like to download...

Don Peebles For a guy not running for mayor, Don Peebles still seems to be testing out his stump speech. Both D.C. Wire and City Desk are reporting on Peebles’ appearance at a meeting last night of the D.C. Federation of Civic Associations, where the developer and erstwhile mayoral challenger...

We know that you’ve all been glued to your TVs on Wednesday nights to catch the newest episodes of The Real World D.C. No? Well then you’ve been reading our weekly recaps . Oh, you haven’t? Fine. Whatever. But we thought we’d remind you that coverage of tonight’s State...

Air America , the progressive radio network that had only this year debuted in Washington and moved into facilities on Idaho Ave., announced today that it will cease all broadcast operations as of this afternoon, in anticipation of a forthcoming Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing. In a memorandum to Air America...

The South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Festival (SALTAF) brings together writers, filmmakers, and dramatists from across the South Asian diaspora for a day of screenings, panel discussions, and book signings. Previous participants of the festival, which takes place on Saturday, include directors...

Photo by afagen We reported yesterday on rumors that the Giro d’Italia, one of professional cycling’s biggest events, may come to the District for an opening stage in 2011. Today we’ve finally received confirmation that D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, himself an avid cyclist, has indeed been...

D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) has introduced a bill that would ban more than a dozen hazardous chemicals from being sold in the District, the Examiner reports . Among the materials listed in the proposed ban: Mattresses and furniture containing polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, which...

Then President-elect Barack Obama eats with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty at Ben’s Chili Bowl on Jan. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) It was a year ago today that District residents awoke — likely groggy from the celebrations the night before — to a new president-elect. Barack Obama...